Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Sat Aug 27 2005 10:46 am

In article <slrndgug40.23iq.willem@toad.stack.nl>, willem@stack.nl 
says...
> Gerry wrote:
> ) But we do, apart from the software communists.  It's the same for 
> ) software as for other things - the only new wrinkle seems to be the 
> ) attempt to introduce communism by stages, starting with only certain 
> ) types of property.
> )
> ) Someone else might argue that land cannot be owned, because there's 
> ) only a finite resource, whereas new software can be created by anyone 
> ) and so should be property.  Again, it would be an attempt to introduce 
> ) communism into a particular sector.
> 
> You're saying that as if communism is a bad thing.

I guess my attitude is warped by twentieth century history.

- Gerry Quinn

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